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Camus distinguished between the absurd and the meaningful. Clarity, with existential tension.

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Camus (1913–1960) argued the “absurd” arises when our demand for meaning meets a universe that doesn’t answer. His famous essay The Myth of Sisyphus was published in 1942 and frames revolt and lucidity as responses.

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